Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico /
by Napolitano, Valentina.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002Description: xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0520233182 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520233190 (paper : alk. paper).Subject(s): Rural-urban migration -- Mexico -- Guadalajara | Indians of Mexico -- Urban residence -- Mexico -- Guadalajara | Guadalajara (Mexico) -- Social conditionsOnline resources: Table of contents | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
1. Internationalizing region, expanding city, neighborhoods "in transition" -- 2. Migration, space, and belonging -- 3. Religious discourses and politics of modernity -- 4. Medical pluralism: medicina popular and medicina alternativa -- 5. Becoming a mujercita: rituals, fiestas, and religious discourses -- 6. "Neither married, widowed, single, or divorced": gender negotiation, compliance, and resistance.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
1. Internationalizing region, expanding city, neighborhoods "in transition" -- 2. Migration, space, and belonging -- 3. Religious discourses and politics of modernity -- 4. Medical pluralism: medicina popular and medicina alternativa -- 5. Becoming a mujercita: rituals, fiestas, and religious discourses -- 6. "Neither married, widowed, single, or divorced": gender negotiation, compliance, and resistance.
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